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Robert Lunte, founder of The Modern Vocalist (Leading web based community for vocalists), announces the Vocal Athletes Workshops in Europe June 14-28. Robert will host these workshops in Italy, Greece and the UK.
For more information, visit the www.thevocaliststudio.com.
Producing singer/songwriters can be a double edged sword for the producer. A singer songwriter will have very firm ideas as to the sound of a song, when it comes to laying down the tracks and developing that final mix. In Tracy Chapman’s case, David Kershenbaum was the magic ingredients needed. David’s early experience with producing the legendary album “Diamonds & Rust” (1975) for 60’s/70’s singer songwriter Joan Baez, gave David the edge in producing what would be grammy winning and mulitplatinum songs & albums. “Building the music around Tracy’s vocals” was key. I spoke with David recently and explored his craft with him.
Vocal coach Renee Grant-Williams will be coming to Australia for the first time ever in January 2009 to conduct performance seminars for songwriters and artists. If you are really serious about your music career, you won’t want to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity. Learn the same techniques that has made stars out of many of today’s top artists includingTim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Christina Aguilera, Keith Urban, Martina McBride,Carrie Underwood, Miley (Hannah Montana) Cyrus and many more.
Joining Renee, guitarist Gary Talley of Grammy-Nominated BOXTOPS and creator of the best-selling DVD/workbook “Guitar Playing for Songwriters” will be teaching guitar and music theory.
Also on board, award-winning Nashville songwriters Karin Paparelli and Bill DiLuigi will be conducting songwriting workshops and coaching sessions for all levels of songwriters.
These workshops promise to be an education experience that you’ll never forget. If you want to give your performing and songwriter career a boost…all you have to do is Just Add Water!
Fore more info visit http://www.jaws2009.com/
A recent discussion on The Modern Vocalist community started about vocal production. Judy Rodman, (founder of the vocal method “Power, Path and Performance”) provided some great insights to how a producer can work with vocalists to get the optimum results.
Great vocal production is like midwifing a child being born. You must know when to coax, when to praise, when to correct, when to let go and let the vocalist breathe. You must know what to say to help the artist NOT PUSH excess air pressure when greater volume or strength of tone is needed, but to increase resonance instead. Read the rest of this entry »
This project was developed by Robert Lunte, the founder of the TC-Helicon Voice Council and was incubated by a special team of some of the most experienced experts on singing in the world. Together, they have joined forces to produce the #1 community for singers on the web.
At TMV (The Modern Vocalist.com) singers and voice instructors of all levels can learn techniques and tips from the experts, be guided as to the best courses to do, be advised of the latest research in voice science and vocal health, learn about performance and style, recording techniques, network contacts in the music business for producing and recording and have fun and make new friends!
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TC-Helicon has completely re-designed its website to focus on giving singers the information, training, and inspiration needed to integrate creative vocal technology into their performance. The rich media site offers extensive video content, audio demos and interactive images for customers to evaluate products and plan their integration into their setup.
An Artist page has been added that profiles artists like the Police and Mnemic that are benefiting from using TC-Helicon products to achieve their vocal sound. Articles on artists offer intimate details on how the artist, producers and engineers polish their vocal sound with products like VoiceDoubler and VoiceWorksPlus.
Access to support has been streamlined and broadened to help singers of any technical level. Finding manuals, software updates and other product specific downloads is simple whether through a product page or the support page. Additionally, common FAQs and direct links to the support knowledge base are easily accessible from any product page on the website.
Soren Fris Dam, TC-Helicon website designer states, “Typically, announcing a new website isn’t necessarily an impressive event. But the re-design of this website is different in that it was 100% singer driven. What does a singer want to know? What does a singer like to do? We don’t know of any other website that offers such a welcome mat to singers.”
The new website is live at www.tc-helicon.com. For regular updates sign up for their newsletter at www.tc-helicon.com/newsletter
With the Australian Idol auditions around the corner, an online mentoring program for vocalists, the Voice Council sounds like a great resource for vocalists.
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